Location of Objects vs Name of Objects
Hello all, I have been using TC 8.70.x to do automated web testing of our internal systems. I have had a lot of success with TC and like its functionality. When I showed my manager my work, h...
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TanyaYatskovska
Alumni
AlumniHi Tyler,
The answer to your question will depend on the way you used to create the test. I suppose that you use the Recording feature for this, right? In this case, TestComplete uses the full path to the recorded objects. But if the button changes the location, it means that the tested app's GUI will be changed. As TestComplete creates GUI tests, it's expected that they should be changed somehow to update the test to the newest tested app version.
If you want to create a test that will not bind to the full path to the object, you can use different TestComplete methods to find the needed objects based on their unique parameters: FindChild, Find, FindAll.